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From Inanimacy to Animacy
Goranka Blagus Bartolec
Sažetak
The masculine animate/inanimate classification is a general characteristic of Croatian and other Slavonic languages (except Bulgarian and Macedonian). In this classification there are two types of case syncretism: genitive-accusative syncretism conditioned by animacy of the noun and nominative-accusative syncretism conditioned by inanimacy of the noun. Using the examples extracted from everyday speech, this paper deals with inanimate masculines which do not follow prototype nominative-accusative patterns and strives to elucidate semantic and lexical conditions for their gramaticalanimacy, discernible in genitive-accusative syncretism.
Ključne riječi
genitive-accusative syncretism; nominative-accusative syncretism; animacy; inanimacy; masculines
Hrčak ID:
9287
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Datum izdavanja:
26.2.2007.
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